You Look Ridiculous: Don Rickles, Jewish American Anxiety, and Insult Comedy

Gong(ed): Chuck Barris (Charles Hirsch) Has Left the Stage

George in Oil, or a Schlemiel on Canvas

The (Sch-Sch) Sounds of a Misfortunate (Sch)lemiel in Wilco’s New Album: Schmilco

Another Kind of Schlemiel: On Gene Wilder, Family, Comedy, Melancholy & Prayer

On Kafka’s Sit Down Comedy

On Literary Pain: Comic and Tragic (From John Updike and Franz Kafka to Louis CK)

He Died on Purim: On Garry Shandling, Smallness, Self-Deprecation & The Meta-Schlemiel

Isn’t that Awkward? On What’s Missing in Franz Kafka’s “Amerika”

Nothing to Laugh About: On Jean Amery’s Phenomenology of Aging and Louis CK’s

Failure, Theft, Schlemiels, and Millennials: On Noah Baumbach’s “Mistress America”

A Schlemiel With a Russian Revolver

Somewhere Between Trauma, Trust, and Comedy

On Harsh Realism, Ethical Hope, and the Meaning(s) of Jewishness in Saul Bellow’s Herzog

Saul Bellow’s Herzog on “Downward Transcendence” and the “Humiliating Comedy of Heartache”

Lena Dunham and the Three J’s: Jokes, Jewishness, and Jewish Literacy

Lena Dunham’s Old/New Schlemiel Humor and the Caricature of the Jewish Male